I recommend you regularly check the Preaching page on our Diocesan website which provides a resource for the help and encouragement of those in our diocese who are entrusted with the important task of preaching and teaching the Bible.
Biblical teaching and preaching explores the question, what is biblical teaching and preaching?, and arrives at the conclusion that, Biblical preaching is a partnership between God and the preacher whereby God speaks by the proclamation of his Word about his Son through his Spirit for the salvation and edification of God’s people.
Ensuring our preaching is Christian asks, could many of our “Christian” sermons be happily preached by a Jew or Muslim? Is our preaching just moralizing or character studies? Is our preaching disconnected from the Bible’s main message – Jesus? Here is where we see the importance for our Bible reading and preaching of understanding that the Bible is 66 books yet ONE book telling ONE story: how God in Christ reigns and reconciles his people to himself.
A suggested list of Books for Biblical Preachers which include, Please! No More Boring Sermons: Preaching for Australians – Contemporary Insights and Practical Aspects, Preach or Perish: Reaching the hearts and minds of the world today, and many more.
Illustrate or perish is for those who speak at the ‘graveyard shift’ after lunch or find themselves contending with an audience fighting the urge to sleep. This page’s title insists that without well-timed illustrative material in our preaching, we the preacher, our poor hearers, and our sermon, will ‘perish.’
Other topics include
- Planning a preaching series: Preaching through the lectionary or through the bible?
- Online preaching and sermon resources, Bible search and Tasmanian forums
- Online studying and certificates in preaching and theology and ministry
- Funeral Messages
- Preaching in a suffering world
- A template for sermon preparation by Paul Barnett
